HOSTS OF GAY FLOWERING PLANTS 
47 
In order to produce large blooms, disbudding is resorted to. This 
consists of the removal of the two side-buds in each group of three. 
If commercial fertilizer is now used, place it six or eight inches 
away from the stalk and water it in. This will force maturity. 
To store Dahlia tubers, for the winter, cut the stalks to within 
a few inches of the ground in the fall after the first frost and leave 
this way for about ten days. Then dig up the tubers very carefully. 
Place them in the open, where it is dry, for a few days. Now place 
the entire clump in dry sand, in a dry basement, where it is neither 
too warm or too cool, and leave until spring. Dahlias may be grown 
from seed. (See page 96.) 
Disbud 
for 
Large 
Flowers 
Winter 
Care of 
Tubers 
Valerie Schoellkopf Moore. 
